The San Francisco Blue Ribbon Panel report (sfblueribbonpanel.

com) published July 2016

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secrecy; irresponsible and ineffective disciplinary processes and complaint resolution;
nepotism and racism in hiring and promotion. One page on each of these topics highlights
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San Francisco residents: please demand civic action to implement recommendations of the
report. Add your name, email and neighborhood on our webpage at

bit.do/sfbri

Racial bias is blatant in SF policing.

more than seven mes

Black adults in San Francisco are

as likely as White
adults to be arrested. Moreover, the disparity gap in arrests was increasing in San
Francisco, while decreasing statewide (p. 28 of the Blue Ribbon Panel Report). Black people
accounted for less than 15 percent of all stops in 2015, but for over 42 percent of all nonconsent searches following stops (p. 30)
Black and Hispanic people had the highest rates of searches without consent. Of all people
searched without consent, Black and Hispanic people had the lowest hit rate of
contraband recovered, suggesng that SFPD performs non-consensual searches of Black and
Hispanic people with lower levels of evidence than for other racial or ethnic groups (p. 30)

Theres a wider net being cast and a lower level of

proof required before iniang a search of African
Americans and Lanos. (p. 31)
Ocer-involved shoongs since 2010 disproporonately
impact people of color although race was not reported
in 18 cases (26% of cases) (p. 69)
SFPD reportedly uses Ingleside, Bayview and Tenderloin
districts as training ground. A rered ocer stated
that the SFPD uses Black neighborhoods as training
locaons to train recruits in
techniques. These pracces further
reduce trust between SFPD ocers and the Black
community (p. 35)

policing

aggressive

Trac stop data collecon by SFPD is outdated and inconsistent, not consistently
collected (p. 35-36). SFPD does not regularly analyze its stop data; does not report the
number of Hispanic arrestees these are classied as White in the database (p. 38)

SFPD does not collect data sucient to evaluate

whether people of color are disproporonately the
subject of police use of force (p. 69)
September 2016